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06 Jul 2020

Nord Stream 2 Allowed to Use Anchored Pipelayers in Denmark

© Nord Stream 2 / Axel Schmidt

Nord Stream 2 AG, Russia's Gazprom-led company building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, has been granted permission from the Danish authorities to use pipelaying vessels with anchors instead of the dynamic-positioning ones.The Danish Energy Agency has at the request of Nord Stream 2 AG made a decision to change the condition to use pipelaying vessels with self-positioning (DP pipe-laying vessels) in the construction permit for the Nord Stream 2 pipelines, which the Danish Energy Agency granted Nord Stream 2 AG on October 30…

27 Apr 2020

MetalCraft Delivers Patrol Boat to Port of LA

(Photo: MetalCraft Marine)

MetalCraft Marine has delivered a new patrol boat to the Port of Los Angeles. The new vessel is one of a new breed of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) detection patrol boats.According to the builder, the bow entry is the critical design feature of all Interceptor models. Its high-speed rough water performance allows the operators to go offshore to inspect incoming ships before they enter the port for nuclear and chemical hazardous contaminants.The boat is designed for rough water with structure design to ISO 12215 and stability to ISO 12217 Category B…

24 Jul 2018

Ready Reserve Force Vessels Stand Ready

Ready Reserve Force Vessel Cape Ray on the historic mission that supported the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to neutralize chemical weapons. (Photo courtesy U.S. DOT)

Merchant mariner numbers may be at a low in the U.S., but the men and women of the Ready Reserve Force (RRF) have increased their operating days by 245 percent from Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 to FY 2017.This year’s missions have included some of the largest ammunition movements since the Vietnam War – which the RRF crane ships are exceptionally cut out for; unit resupply to various theaters around the world, and movement of rotating forces including supporting the Canadian military.

14 Jan 2014

Final Sea Trials for "Chemical Weapon Destruction" Ship

MV Cape Ray: Image Wiki CCL

The US Military Sealift Command ship 'MV Cape Ray' has left Portsmouth, Va., to conduct final sea trials in preparation for its upcoming mission to destroy Syrian chemical weapons. During the sea trials, the crew and the Field-Deployable Hydrolysis System operators are evaluating the ship and the system at various sea states. The ship is expected to return shortly for final outfitting before deploying to an as-yet undisclosed location in the Mediterranean Sea sometime late this week or early next week, according to Army Col. Steve Warren , a Pentagon spokesman.

07 Aug 2012

Cruise Ship Healthcare Conference Hears from Norovirus Expert

Zylast™ infectious disease specialist presents benefits of  broad spectrum anti-microbial products at Miami meeting. Maj. Steven E. Czerwinski (Retired), an infectious disease expert who specialized in preventative chemical warfare research in the U.S. Army, made a keynote presentation to the conference. A main point in the discussions was the danger of norovirus, which causes an extremely contagious stomach flu, in enclosed areas like cruise ships. Unlike other personal sanitization products on the market, Zylast has proven it can effectively kill the norovirus and can claim to be a "broad spectrum" antimicrobials under the Food and Drug Administration monograph. A total of 20 million people in the U.S.

20 Apr 2011

Disposal of Chemical Weapons at Sea

While World War II is well-known as the beginning of the age of atomic weapons, World War I is lesser-known as dawn of the age of chemical weapons. The 1914-1918 conflict saw development and large-scale production of mustard gas, lewisite, and other chemical agents specially designed and packaged for use in armed conflict. With the armistice ending the War to End All Wars, large quantities of this material was left with no place to go. The technology to safely destroy these chemical weapons did not exist and public concern over its existence was largely nil. Without giving the matter much thought, the victorious Allies took much of the surplus chemical weapons out to sea and dumped it overboard.